Week Three - January 27
Mosque of
Sinan Pasha, Damascus, 16th century [Ottoman]
Class Presentation:
The Ottoman Legacies in the Middle East [visitor: Professor L.
Carl Brown, Princeton University].
Reading Assignments:
L. Carl Brown. Imperial Legacy. pp. 1-38, 100-114, 133-157.
Professor Brown will be delivering a public lecture on January 28,
"The West and the Middle East: What did go Wrong?" in Wonders Kiva at 7:30
p.m.
In addition to the book we are using in this class, Professor Brown has written:
(ed) Diplomacy in the Middle East: The International
Relatoins of Regional and Outside Powers (2001).
Religion and State: the Muslim Approach to Politics
(2000).
(ed, with Matthew S. Gordon) Franco-Arab Encounters:
Studies in Memory of David C. Gordon (1996).
International Politics and the Middle East: Old Rules,
Dangerous Game (1984).
(ed, with Norman Itzkowitz) Psychological Dimensions
of Near Eastern Studies (1977).
The Tunisia of Ahmad Bey, 1837-1855 (1974).
The Surest Path: The Political Treatise of a Nineteenth-Century
Muslim Statesman (1967).
State and Society in Independent North Africa (1966).